φιλύκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Perhaps a Pre-Greek word related to φιλύρα (philúra, “lime tree”) and φυλία (phulía, “wild olive tree”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.lý.kɛː/ → /ɸiˈly.ci/ → /fiˈli.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lý.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈly.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈly.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈly.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.ci/

Noun

φῐλῠ́κη • (philúkē) f (genitive φῐλῠ́κης); first declension

1. alatern (Rhamnus alaternus)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῐλῠ́κη; τῆς φῐλῠ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῐλῠ́κη hē philúkē	τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ philúkā	αἱ φῐλῠ́και hai philúkai
Genitive	τῆς φῐλῠ́κης tês philúkēs	τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn philúkain	τῶν φῐλῠκῶν tôn philukôn
Dative	τῇ φῐλῠ́κῃ têi philúkēi	τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn philúkain	ταῖς φῐλῠ́καις taîs philúkais
Accusative	τὴν φῐλῠ́κην tḕn philúkēn	τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ philúkā	τᾱ̀ς φῐλῠ́κᾱς tā̀s philúkās
Vocative	φῐλῠ́κη philúkē	φῐλῠ́κᾱ philúkā	φῐλῠ́και philúkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phylica

Further reading

• “φιλύκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φιλύκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN